Happy New Year to all PHD Readers

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Happy New Year to all my readers. I am sure 2008 has been many things to many people, but I am hoping it has been an year of productivity and happiness for you. Here is to wishing a great, no, fantastic 2009 for you and your family.

If you were busy through out 2008 and couldn’t really catch up on all the fun excel and charting ideas posted and discussed at PHD, here is your last chance to browse them. 2009 will be a fresh year. I am kidding, all the articles will be available in 2009 and beyond as well. But just go ahead and read them anyways.

Here is 10 posts from 2008 that are must read

15-excel-tips Excel can be Exciting – 15 fun things you can do with excel
excel-gantt Become a Conditional Formatting Rockstar – Learn 5 cool Excel tips
excel-chart-templates Make beautiful charts – use these gorgeous templates
ulgy-charts 6 Charts you will see in hell
charting-trick Select & Show one chart from many – Excel Charting Trick
kpi-charts Excel KPI Dashboards – 4 Post Tutorial and Free Downloads
excel-formulas 15 Microsoft Excel Formulas everyone should know
micro-charts-excel Micro-charting in Excel – Alternatives Reviewed
mf-portfolio Tracking your Mutual Funds and Stocks using Excel – Download included
paste-special Master Excel’s Paste Special – Learn these cool tips

Here is a list of top referrers to the site:

Life Hacker
Jon Peltier @ PTS Blog
Spreadsheet Page
Coliss
Digital Inspiration
XL Cubed Blog
Daily dose of Excel

I am so thankful to all my readers and commenters who supported PHD and helped me learn so many things.

Special thanks to Robert and Vishy who contributed to this blog through guest articles.

Once again, wish you all a very happy 2009 🙂

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30 Responses to “Great News: Chandoo becomes MVP”

  1. arkangel says:

    Congratulations! It's well deserved. 🙂

  2. Bhars says:

    This is amazing. Hearty congratulations and a rocking new year ahead!!!

  3. Frederick says:

    Congrats! I have learnt alot from your site... and the most important is learning how to achieve the most with the simplest concepts.

  4. Harish Chotai says:

    Thanks for the excel calendar. Is it possible to get a simple big fonted calendar printable on an A4 size paper without any distracive notes or visuals? BTW, I have already signed up for your newsletter. With warm regards and
    Gratefully yours
    50+ year old CHarish.

  5. Pankaj Verm says:

    Hey Chandoo,

    Great to hear that. Congratulations! The best new year gift, I would say. Keep it up, u've been doing extraordinary work for the excel users community.

    Regards,

    Pankaj Verma

  6. Amit says:

    Congrats dude... fantastic news!

  7. Rich says:

    congratulations! your site is great, this is well deserved

    Rich

  8. Arnold says:

    I recently found your site, I visit many. The tips that you provide are in the top 1% of all the sites I visit. Keep on Excelling.

    Arnold
    South Africa

  9. Jorge Camoes says:

    Congratulations, Chandoo! That's a great way to start the year and make the PHD even better.

  10. Jiri Cihar says:

    Congratulations, Chandoo.

    Your site is one of most useful on the net. Happy new year and lot of ideas you will present for us.

  11. Amit Agarwal says:

    Congrats.

    Just read your name in an email from Abhishek. Well deserved.

  12. Jon Peltier says:

    Congratulations, and Happy New Year.

  13. Fchaves says:

    Greetings from Rio de Janeiro my friend! You trully deserve it!

    Nive way to start 2009! Keep up the good work!

    FC

  14. Santosh says:

    That was quite forseeable , so you have now really got your PhD in excel.
    Anyways Chandoo you have made excel a real Fun doo
    I will like you to write some more on INDEX and MATCH function in near future.

  15. Ketan says:

    @Hey Chandoo ! Congrates....

    Ab to treat mangta hai !

  16. Rajiv Thakur says:

    Well deserved Chandoo!!

  17. Cheryl says:

    Congrat's!! Very well deserved 🙂

  18. azmat says:

    i always browsed mr.excel and used to see MVP writtne below names of people who used to solve queries in excel forum there......i just used to admire as to what they have special in them that they are MVP......

    but now i got my answer...............u deserve it man..........

  19. Chandoo says:

    @All: thanks everyone 🙂

  20. JP says:

    Congratulations Chandoo, nice job!

  21. Subbaraman says:

    Chandoo,

    A well deserved recognition and a good start to the New Year. Continue your good work.

    Subbu

  22. Vishal Haria says:

    Many Congratulations.
    You deserve a Ph.D. 🙂

  23. Govar says:

    Congrats dude. Rock on!

  24. [...] charting community in 2007 and has been growing strongly ever since. In year 2009, I have received the MVP award from Microsoft. Just few days back I have become a dad [...]

  25. Respected sir,

    I am impressed!.... Good job done.. Keep it up...

    Sir, How to be a MVP certified person. What level of knowledge is required for it? send me links if possible.

    Please reply...

    Regards,
    Dipak Khalasi.

  26. Jon Peltier says:

    Dipak -

    The first thing you need to cultivate is the ability to search the web effectively. You could start by Googling "Microsoft MVP". 

  27. [...] boy and girl which has been made hectic and incredibly fun ever since to their life.He has been awarded MVP status in 2009 by Microsoft(and renewed in 2010,2011 & 2012).His MVP profile is here.If you want to contact him direct then [...]

  28. Sumit says:

    Congrats Chandoo!!

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